Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Online ISSN: 2398-8096

Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is a bimonthly, open access journal with a comprehensive peer review policy, and a rapid publication process.

CMID provides a new platform for all researchers, medical specialties, clinicians, scientists, scholars and students to publish their research work and contribute the latest research information. The journal publishes research articles as full-length research papers and short reports. In addition, the journal publishes editorials and review articles in innovative formats that target a broad and non-specialized audience.

Please, follow the Instructions for Authors. In the cover letter add the name and e-mail address of 5 proposed reviewers (we can choose them or not).

Copyright is retained by the authors and articles can be freely used and distributed by others. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published by CMID, is properly cited

Nigel Silman

Nigel Silman is the Strategic R&D Lead at Public Health England’s Porton Down Centre in the UK and has over 30 years’ experience working in with a range of viral and bacterial pathogens in high-containment laboratories. He was educated at the Universities of Plymouth and Leicester and has a background in microbial physiology & biochemistry, particularly in relation to control of biochemical and biosynthetic pathways. His research interests include process development of industrial enzymes, pharmaceutical proteins and detection & diagnosis of infectious diseases and he currently has active projects on Anthrax, Salmonella typhi and influenza. He has worked in both academic and industrial settings and has been at Porton Down for the last 18 years. He is the PHE research lead for Diagnostics and Detection and also responsible for the scientific overview of specialist reference and contract microbiology services for a range of exotic & emerging infectious diseases as well as developing and leading the strategic R&D direction for the Centre. He holds a visiting Chair in Infectious Disease at the University of the West of England, Bristol and he is also the CEO and Managing Director of WiltonBio (www.wiltonbio.com), a start-up company based on the Tetricus Science Park, Porton Down.

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Publication Charges

Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is an Open Access journal and we do not charge the end user when accessing a manuscript or any article. This allows the scientific community to view, download, distribution of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited, under the term of "Creative Commons Attribution License". In line with other open access journals we provide a flat fee submission structure on the acceptance of a peer-reviewed article which covers in part the entirety of the publication pathway (the article processing charge). The process includes our maintenance, submission and peer review systems and international editing, publication and submission to global indexing and tracking organisations and archiving to allow instant access to the whole article and associated supplementary documents. We also have to ensure enough investment to secure a sustainable model which ethically, legally and financially stable.

Why are your charges set at these levels?

All articles published in OA Text are open access. Open Access publishing implies that all readers, anywhere in the world, are allowed unrestricted to full text of articles, immediately on publication in OA Text Journals. The Article Publication Charges pay for the editorial and production costs of the journal, for hosting the website, publishing articles online, preparing HTML , PDF and XML versions of the articles and submitting the articles in electronic citation database like CrossRef.

Our financial goals are to:

Recover capitalization costs;

Produce sufficient revenue to allow for a sustainable and scalable publishing program, under continuous development;

Bend the publication-charge cost downward over time.

Who will pay the APC?

Corresponding author or Co-authors has to make the payment on acceptance of the article.

What type of articles are published for free?

Editorials, letters, comments, retractions, etc. will be published for free of charge. APC is applicable for the article types like Research, Review, Mini review, Case Reports, opinions etc.

When should I pay?

Corresponding author or the paying institutions should arrange for the payment once they are notified regarding acceptance of the article. APC is exempted for cases in which a wavier agreement has been made in-prior to submission.

*We request an immediate attention towards the payment as the articles will not be published unless the charges have been paid.

How do I pay?

Authors or institutions can make payments by two modes as per their convenience.

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Note: No taxes are included in this charge, taxes will be applicable as per the policies of the country of the payee. Additional transaction charges may be levied on the author.

Can I be eligible for wavier on APC?

The waiver request will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and will be provided accordingly.

*The Waiver requests must be made during the submission process and will not be accepted after processing of the manuscript.

Do I have to pay if my manuscript is rejected?

No, Article processing charges will not be applicable for articles rejected by the Editorial office.